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May 2010, Tutorials, Miscellaneous, Professional/Broadcast

Introduction to Zaxwerks Pro Animator

By David Hague   Sun, May 16, 2010

Zaxwerks has long been considered an indispensible tool by video editors, compositors and special effects people. Here are two tutorials showing an example of workflow in Zaxwerks Pro Animator

Introduction to Zaxwerks Pro Animator

Zaxwerks has been around a long, long time and was doing 3D even before 3D was fashionable! In fact it used to be said that every TV station in the world probably had a copy of Zaxwerks as every station logo had been made with it. If you have never seen or heard of the package, have a look at these tutorials (click an image below) for an idea of what can be done. The full Zaxwerks website is www.zaxwerks.com

 Tutorial One

Zaxwerks Tutorial

Tutorial Two

Zaxwerks Tutorial

By David Hague

David Hague

David is the owner and publisher of AusCam Online. He has a background in media dating back to 1979 when he first got involved with photojournalism in motorsport, and went from there into technology via a 5 year stint with Tandy Computers. Following that, he ran a software distribution company on the Gold Coast and was one of the first to recognise the potential of Microsoft Windows.

Moving back to WA, David wrote scripts for Computer Television for video training for the just released Windows and Office 95 among others, and was then lured to Sydney to create web sites for the newly commercial Internet in 1995, building hundreds of sites under contract to OzEmail including Coates Hire, Hertz Queensland, John Williamson, the NSW Board of Studies and many, many more.

He went back into full time journalism as the Managing Editor for Channel 7's 'Gadget Guy', Peter Blasina's publications VideoCamera and Pixelmag, before starting Australasian Camcorder magazine when these publications were shelved. He lives at Sydney's Avalon Beaches nearly on the ocean front with dog Budweiser and in his spare time is a nut for motor sport, road safety, fishing, science fiction - especially Dr Who - and technology.

David can be contacted via david@auscamonline.com 

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